From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 27 22:12:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from queasy.outpost.co.nz (outpost2.inspire.net.nz [203.96.157.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6291815444 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:12:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crh@outpost.co.nz) Received: (qmail 85909 invoked from network); 28 Jul 1999 05:11:56 -0000 Received: from officedonkey.outpost.co.nz (HELO officedonkey) (192.168.1.3) by queasy.outpost.co.nz with SMTP; 28 Jul 1999 05:11:56 -0000 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Craig Harding" Organization: Outpost Digital Media Ltd To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 16:57:51 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Reply-To: crh@outpost.co.nz Cc: Terry Lambert In-reply-to: <199907272314.QAA00814@usr01.primenet.com> References: <379D20CA.F7EC7E15@execpc.com> from "Len Huppe" at Jul 26, 99 10:00:26 pm X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.52) Message-Id: <19990728051209.6291815444@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > Speaking for myself, it's because people who don't know better > depend upon its features, rendering shell scripts non-portable. > > In order to run these scripts, you have to install bash. > > In order to do that, you have to run "configure". > > In order to do that, you have to install GNU "make". You must be doing it the hard way, Terry. I usually find: $ cd /usr/ports/shells/bash2 $ make install works fine. -- C. -- Craig Harding crh@outpost.co.nz "I don't know about God, I Outpost Digital Media Ltd crh@inspire.net.nz just think we're handmade" http://www.outpost.co.nz ICQ# 26701833 - Polly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message